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Policing, migration and national identity

22 May 2017, 9:15AM - 23 May 2017, 5:00PM

Week:TT5

Venue:Warwick University School of Law

Organised by:Ana Aliverti

The seminar aims at exploring the new contours of policing under conditions of mass mobility and globalization, and the implications of the attendant changes to law enforcement practices and those subject to them. Amid heighten hostility towards migrants and stiffer migration controls, policing practices have been reshaped in tandem with border control imperatives in many countries around the world. This new law enforcement landscape begs important questions: How do migration control imperatives serve to reinforce longstanding policing practices towards racialized minorities? How do the people subject to them experience such practices? What are the social, cultural and institutional implications of the crime-immigration merge? How are conflicting goals in the enforcement of the law reconciled? What is the role the broader community is expected to play in contemporary law enforcement?